Walker and Christie Sitting In A Tree...

Christie is the one on the left.

John Cole found this.  Walker wants to BAN wind power from Wisconsin.  Ban it.  Wisconsin is not a coal state or a natural gas state or a petroleum state.  It does sit on the edge of the largest fresh water lake system in the world and has access to immense amount of wind.  Walker is basically saying that if a company wants to come in and start creating wind power in Wisconsin, he will stop it.  That's not free market.  That's... well it's crazy.

Dennis G found this. It's a Twitter exchange between Christie and a Jersey citizen, in which Christie is called on being factually inaccurate and responds pretty much with ad hominem attacks.  Facts aren't really relevant to Christie, just airtime.  By that measure he's doing well.

Walker and Christie are the current rock stars of the GOP.  One's an ignorant boob carrying the water for his campaign donors and wingnut ideology and the other wishes he could have been Tony Soprano instead of only looking like him.

Meanwhile other governors - Republican and Democrat - are working to balance budgets and work with their legislatures to keep their states afloat.

I know some of it is the media obsession with conflict - if it bleeds, it leads - but they have literally placed the sideshow, talk radio-type personalities at the forefront.  No wonder Brooks is so enamored with Mitch Daniels, Daniels isn't insane.